<p id="rfc.section.A.2.p.14">Clarify exactly when close connection options have to be sent. (<a href="#header.connection" id="rfc.xref.header.connection.11" title="Connection">Section&nbsp;6.1</a>)

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<p id="rfc.section.A.2.p.15">Define the semantics of the "Upgrade" header field in responses other than 101 (this was incorporated from <a href="#RFC2817" id="rfc.xref.RFC2817.3"><cite title="Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1">[RFC2817]</cite></a>). (<a href="#header.upgrade" id="rfc.xref.header.upgrade.2" title="Upgrade">Section&nbsp;6.5</a>)

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<p id="rfc.section.2.2.p.3">When a stored response is used to satisfy a request without validation, a cache <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> include a single Age header field (<a href="#header.age" id="rfc.xref.header.age.1" title="Age">Section&nbsp;3.1</a>) in the response with a value equal to the stored response's current_age; see <a href="#age.calculations" title="Calculating Age">Section&nbsp;2.3.2</a>.

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<p id="rfc.section.2.2.p.4">A cache <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> write through requests with methods that are unsafe (<a href="p2-semantics.html#safe.methods" title="Safe Methods">Section 6.1.1</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.3"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics">[Part2]</cite></a>) to the origin server; i.e., a cache must not generate a reply to such a request before having forwarded the request and

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<p id="rfc.section.2.2.p.4">A cache <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> write through requests with methods that are unsafe (<a href="p2-semantics.html#safe.methods" title="Safe Methods">Section 6.1.1</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.3"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics">[Part2]</cite></a>) to the origin server; i.e., a cache is not allowed to generate a reply to such a request before having forwarded the request